Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081454230

Bassin de Chisowa

A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.

Crosses 1 administrative regions : Kazungula

Pfafstetter: 12291268

Sub-basin area

206,6km²

Upstream area

206,7km²

Discharge

0,22m³/s

Mean elev.

1 065m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Chisowa95 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Mulobezi

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    176.66 km² overlap

  • Sichifulo

    IUCN VI

    Game Management Area

    19.75 km² overlap

  • Kafue

    IUCN II

    National Park

    9.48 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 distinct species · 19 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

19 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 12
12–11
4–11
4–3
< 4

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,1°C

Annual rain

816mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,55

Runoff

38mm/an

PET

1 799mm

AET

688mm

Mean slope

0,5°

Water table

137cm

Forest

42%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)